In honor of the upcoming Travers race, I thought it might be fun to go back in time with Saratoga’s legendary racecaster Tom Durkin, and listen to some of his most unique race calls. The horses are at the starting gate… And… THEY’RE OFF!! ARRRRR Why do I get this feeling that Durkin is auditioning…
Read MoreTen for Thursday: Ten Great Silent Films
I am a major silent film fan. As far as I’m concerned, film comedy began with the Keystone Cops and Fatty Arbuckle, and evolved with the holy trio of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. But that doesn’t mean that silent films are just a bunch of fractured flicker funnies. Some of the most…
Read MoreCan Wal-Mart Develop your 120 film? Yes, but…
Bennett Campbell is an excellent photographer, you can visit his website and see his photographs.ย He also made a comment on my previous blog post about whether, when it comes to my recent kick for film photography, I’m possibly setting myself up for failure – things like my problem with CVS ruining a roll of…
Read More419 posts ago…
I was an independent blogger with one of those “you can blog on our site” weblogs.ย I got a couple of hits once in a while, a comment here and there, nothing really earth-shaking.ย Let’s put it this way.ย Even the spambots weren’t interested in finding me. Then I got an e-mail. “Hello Chuck, my…
Read MoreTres Hombres has two major wins over Street Academy
This is the post Dan Smith has been waiting for.ย Ever since I started up this Times-Union blog thingy, Dan and his team have been able to say to me, “Hey Chuck, you may have won Trivia Bowl (twice) and Summer Bowl (once) and a bunch of other things… but we got one on you.ย …
Read MoreUPDATE: As for the Coca-Cola split-film picture at the NYS Fair…
When I received my six postcards from the State Fair yesterday, five of the cards had some sort of designation / indication of whether or not my photos were accepted or rejected.ย To sum up – my photos of the lighthouse, the broken backboard, the Quebec City light trail and the Thacher Park star trail…
Read MoreJust heard from the New York State Fair…
The anticipation has been driving me nuts for the last ten days. It began when I drove out to Syracuse with my six entries for the photography competition at the New York State Fair.ย Got off at Exit 34A on the Thruway, then took I-481 to I-690, and then arrived at the Fairgrounds.ย Each photo…
Read MoreThe Solid Gold Dancers take my mind off my troubles…
Back in ancient times, when people didn’t have dedicated cable channels that showed all-sports or all-music videos or all-Law & Order, there was a syndicated television variety series called Solid Gold.ย Solid Gold would bring the top performers of the day on stage to lip-sync their hits.ย The hosts would read off cue cards and…
Read MoreThe “Convoy” Saga… Part 2
The C.W. McCall “Convoy” article for RoadKing was a major success. The publication received dozens of letters from truck drivers and motorists, all of whom remembered the song and were thankful that someone had written an article on the long-forgotten piece of trucking history. So it’s March 2004, and I’m currently working on maybe six…
Read MoreThe “Convoy” Saga… Part 1
The song itself was a mixture of “talking blues” and trucker slang.ย In the mid-1970’s, truck drivers stayed in communication with each other while on the road, by using personal communication devices called citizen’s band radios.ย A truck driver at mile marker 200 could alert a fellow teamster at mile marker 190 that a state…
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